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 Manché: m. ée: f. Hafted, helued.

Manchereau: m. A little haft, or handle.  Les manchereaux d'la charruë. The plough-handles, or plough-hales.

Mancheron: m. A bracelet, or bracer; also, a halfe-sleeue, or wrist-sleeue; a sleeue that couers the arme from the elbow to the wrist.  Mancherons de robbes. The hanging halfe-sleeues of some fashioned gownes.

Manchette: f. A cuffe, or hand-ruffe.

Manchon: m. as Mancheron; also, a Snuffkin; also, a scarfe, bracelet, or other such like fauour worne vpon the sleeue, or arme in publike shewes, and assemblies.  Manchon d'hermines. A Maniple charged, or powdered, with Ermines.

Manchot: m. otte: f. Lame, that hath but one hand, that wanteth a limme.

Manciper. To disposseße himselfe, to deliuer the possession, or make liuerie and seisin, of; to sell, passe away, giue vp.

Mand. as Mandement. An old word.

Mandat: m. A Mandate, or Mandamus for the preferment of one to a Benefice.

Mandataire: m. A Mandatarie; one that comes to a Benefice by a Mandamus. Mande. as Manne; a Maund. ¶Pic. Mandé: m. ée: f. Commaunded; sent, or called for; bid come; directed; appointed, charged.

Mandegloire: f. Mandrake; See Mandragore. Mandement: m. A sending, or calling for, also, a charge, bidding, or commaundement; a Mandate, Mandamus, Commission, Warrant, Appointment.

Mander. To bid, or command; to call by commandement; to send, send for, send word of; to charge, or appoint.  À rien mander il ne faut point de messager; (a flowting answer for such as say, Me voulez vous rien mander.)   À main lavée Dieu mande la repeuë: Prov. The heauens powre downe their blessings on th'vpright.  À toile ordie Dieu mande le fil: Prov. God furthers their indeauors that take paines.

Mandibules: f. The iawes.

Mandication: f. as Manducation. Mandil: m A Mandilian, or loose Caßocke.

Mandille: f. as Mandil. Mandole: f. A Cackarell (fish.)

Mandore: f. A Kitt, small Gitterne, or instrument resembling a small Gitterne.

Mandosiane: f. A broad (and old-fashioned) short-sword.

Mandoussiane. The same.

Mandragore: f. Mandrake, Mandrage, Mandragon; whereof there be two kinds.  Mandragore femelle. The female, or blacke Mandrake, beares a darke greene leafe, and a long apple; but is otherwise like vnto;  Mandragore masle. Male Mandrake, white Mandrake, which beareth a round apple.

Mandre: f. The Cell of a Monke, or Hermit; also, a houell, or shedd; a stall, or foddering place, for beasts, in the fields.

Mandregloire. as Mandragore. Manducation: f. An eating, or chawing, a grinding, or champing with the teeth.

Manducité: f. Great eating. ¶Rab.

Manée: f. A small vessell, or measure, whereof 96 make but one Minot. Droict de manée de sel. That measure-full vpon euerie horse-load of salt brought into Bourges, and of euerie one that sells any salt in Bourges; due to the Abbot, and Couent of S. Sulpice''. Manege: m. The manage, or managing of a horse.

Manequin: m. A little, open, wide-mouthed, and narrow bottomed Panier, or Maund, vsed for the carrying both of victualls, and of earth; also, a Puppet; (See Mannequin;) also, a rude instrument of Musicke; whence;  Iouër des cymbales, & manequins. To leacher.  Iouër des manequins à basses marches. The same.

Manequinage: m. Anticke ingrauerie, or caruing, in Wainscot, or Stone-worke.

Manette: f. A small hand; also, a manacle, or hand-fetter.

Maneuvre. as Manouvrier. Manganese: f. A certaine minerall which being melted with glaße, amends the colour thereof; there is also good blue, oror blacke enamell made of it.

Mangé: m. ée: f. Eaten, fed on.  Il a mangé le lard. He onely is guiltie of the theft, or cousenage.  À la fin sçaura on qui a mangé le lard. The theefe will at length be discouered.  Qui a mangé le lard ronge l'os. He that hath eaten the sweet shall tast of the soure; or, let him that hath gotten the best goe away with the worst.  C'est trop mangé d'un pain en vn lieu. Wee haue stayed too long in a place, or stood too much on one matter.  Il a mangé de la biche blanche. Looke Biche. Il a mangé les pigeonneaux. Said of one whose voice being hoarse, hath some resemblance with their cry.  Il a mangé de la vache enragée. Looke Manger. Mangeaille: f. Meat, food, sustenance, victualls.  Mangeaille pour les pourceaux. Swillings, washings, draffe, Hogs-wash.  Il luy a baillé logis pour mangeaille. He hath assigned him a house to eat, or to dresse & spend his meat, in.

Mangeant. Eating, feeding, falling to his victualls.  En mangeant l'appetit se perd: Prov. Eating and drinking will take away any mans stomacke.  En mangeant l'appetit vient: Pro. (Sometimes) the more one eats the more he may.  Bonne beste s'eschauffe en mangeant: Prov. A good beast heates it selfe while it eates; viz. eates hard, feeds heartily.

Mangeatif: m. iue: f. Eatable; which may be, or is fit to be, eaten.

Mangemerde: f. The name of a fish thats otherwise called, Saupe. Mangeoire: f. A manger; also, the gullet, or swallow.

Manger: m. Meat, food, sustenance, belly-timber, victualls, eating stuffe. Chair de mouton manger de glouton; Prov. Looke Mouton.

Manger. To eat, feed, take sustenance or nourishment, fall to his victualls. Il mange bien. He is a daintie feeder, or, he keepes good meat in his house. Manger son avoine en son sac. as in Avoine; or, as Manger son pain en son sac. Manger son bled en herbe. To wast his reuenue before it comes in. Manger le cochon ensemble. To complot, conspire, ioyne in a practise, conclude an enterprise, together: (Belike from some notable meeting of conspirators, whereat Pigs flesh was their best, or onely fare.)